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Mar 27, 2017 · A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film...
- Bill Nichols
- Indiana University Press, 2017
- 3, illustrated
- Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition
The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?"
- Bill Nichols
- 2017
Authors. Praise. The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?"
Bill Nichols is an American film critic and scholar renowned for pioneering the study of documentary film. He introduced the influential concept of the "six modes of documentary" and the...
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- Shanghai Daily
The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a...
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Sep 17, 2015 · Nichols' coins six sub-genres of documentary according to the method filmmakers use to convey the truth, and he introduces us to the modes like this: Individual voices lend themselves to an auteur theory of cinema, while shared voices lend themselves to a genre theory of cinema.
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The third edition of Introduction to Documentary examines this fascinating type of filmmaking through a series of questions that involve issues of definition, ethics, content, form, modes, and politics. It adds a new chapter on how to make a documentary that focuses on preproduction, the first step to making a documentary.